Giving the 7900 XT Its Job: Stable Diffusion on Ubuntu 26.04
Every architecture diagram survives until you actually build it. Last post I drew the topology for the three-box lab: the XTX holds the resident LLM, […]
Building a Local Jarvis Across Three Boxes I Already Owned
Every home-lab project starts the same way for me: a reasonable-sounding idea that quietly metastasizes into a hardware audit. This one began as “can I […]
Architecting a Local, Headless AI Inference Lab
When engineering a localized, bare-metal AI lab environment, combining cloud-first container ecosystems with highly specific on-premises hardware introduces unique structural friction. In this guide, I […]
VectorDB tuning for ZFS
Part 2: Storage Layer Optimization — How I Made ZFS Play Nice with My VectorDB In the world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), I’ve learned that […]
So I wanted to dive into this AI thing
Update from me: I’ve moved to gaming on CachyOS vs Windows 11 for the last 6 months or so. I’ve been wanting to get back […]
Thinking back on an interview early in my career
Career guidance from a hiring manager long ago
AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks
This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but […]
PSA: Dell Peripheral Manager causes zombie processes
DPM causes zombie processes, software version 2.0.0.72
100,000 Disk Flush events and Windows boot
Disk flushes can have a serious impact on disk throughput, see how one systems boot was increased by 200 seconds as a result of disk flush events.
My latest/last book is out today! Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators
Was a long time project, an update to the Windows 10 book Manuel, Richard and I wrote a few years ago. Hopefully it’s well received. […]